Phils lend hand, spread holiday cheer at shelter

PHILADELPHIA — Days like Monday can change a life.

The Phillies continued their 15-year holiday tradition of serving meals to more than 200 homeless at the Bethesda Project’s Our Brothers’ Place, which is a shelter for 149 homeless men. The group included Phillies president Andy MacPhail, chairman David Montgomery, general manager Matt Klentak, broadcasters Larry Andersen, Scott Franzke, Ben Davis and Gregg Murphy, and the Phillie Phanatic.

“A lot of the people here sometimes feel forgotten by the world around them, by society,” said Father Domenic Rossi, who founded Bethesda Project in 1979. “This is one day that they realize that somebody is thinking of them, that they’re not forgotten.”

Last year, one of the Our Brothers’ Place residents, Abraham Dentis, prepared a resume and handed it to Klentak. Dentis told Klentak that he dreamed about working for the Phillies.

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